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Apart from industrial safety offences, there were 5,043 convictions involving the violation of the Women and Young Persons (Industry) and Employment of Children Regulations, as well as the Employment, Labour Relations and Employees' Compensation Ordinances. Fines imposed totalled $7.3 million,

Of the 5,043 convictions, 1,074 were related to the employment of women and young persons to work overtime or on rest days and 1,974 involved the failure of employers to take out insurance policies for employees or give them statutory holiday pay,

Another 68 cases were related to the failure of employers to pay their employees wages on the due date or upon termination of their service.

There were also 28 cases relating to the failure of employers to keep or produce employees' records for inspection by labour inspectors as required by the Immigration Ordinance.

Of the remaining conviction cases last year, 156 involved the breaching of the Boilers and Pressure Vessels Ordinance.

End/Saturday, February 18, 1995

Revised topographic maps published

The Survey and Mapping Office (SMO) of the Lands Department has revised and published the series of 1:50,000 topographic maps.

The series comprises two sheets to cover the whole territory of Hong Kong. The first edition was produced in March 1975 based on the bilingual imperial series HK1. Since then, it has been updated biennially and is now in its 10th edition.

The map is printed in eight colours with hill shading and layer tinting to enhance the visual impact in the relief presentation, in addition to the 50-metre interval contour lines. The map also shows submarine contours in metres.

Major developments now in progress, such as the new airport reclamation, proposed Route 3, North Lantau Expressway and West Kowloon Reclamation, are also shown on the map.